A Scottish Whisky firm on Thursday unveiled bottles of the oldest single malt whisky in the world, having spent the best part of a century inside an oak barrel.
Gordon and MacPhail’s Mortlach 70-Year-Old Speyside was sampled at a launch party in Edinburgh Castle, where it was escorted through the doors by pipers and a military escort.
“It matured for 70 years in the cask and that is what makes it the oldest whisky in the world,” a spokeswoman for Gordon and MacPhail said.
The whisky was filled into its cask on October …

Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman said in a press conference that he wants to set a new standard for personalization of Aston vehicles.
The aim is to form a team of engineers that would be able to make any of your dreams come true.
Reichman said that this could be accomplished using Aston’s historic Works Service department and the engineering and production staff who currently help produce the One-77 supercar.

“There is much more choice in the world,” Reichman said, “so our cars need to be much more personal.”
For example, each Rapide …

The world’s new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia helped lead a comeback for the wealthiest few on the planet in 2010, Forbes magazine said Wednesday. The publication’s annual rich list reflected a resurgence of wealth after the financial turmoil of 2009, with the top 10 wealthiest worth a combined 342 billion dollars, compared to 254 billion dollars in the previous year.
“The global economy is recovering. The financial markets came back, especially emerging markets,” said magazine editor-in-chief Steve Forbes. “There’s a 50 percent …

The Breitling for Bentley collection welcomes a new one-of-a-kind model, dedicated to the founder of the prestigious British car manufacturer.
Based on a late 19th century design from Breitling’s archives, the timepiece comprises almost 700 parts.
The 2010 vintage is a pocket-watch combining two of the most sophisticated complications in the horological repertoire.
A perpetual calendar displaying the date, day, month, leap years and moon phases that takes account of the quadrennial occurrence of February 29th…
…and a minute repeater striking the hours, quarters and minutes on demand.”
This Grande Complication pocket-watch will be unveiled …

In just two weeks early last year, an 11-year-old boy from Azerbaijan became the owner of nine waterfront mansions in Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah.
His name is Heydar Aliyev. That also happens to be the name of the son of Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev. Furthermore, Dubai records show the purchaser’s date of birth to be the same as that of the president’s son.
The Washington Post newspaper reported that they were bought in a two-week shopping spree last year for about $44 million – 10,000 times the average annual salary in Azerbaijan.
Two more …

Thanks to CAR Magazine, I had the pleasure of attending the Franschhoek Motor Museum Concours & Time Trial event last weekend. If you’re not entirely certain what I mean by this, it’s a show dedicated to special vehicles featured on the day which stand in the Franschhoek Motor Museum.
The setting was the beautiful L’Ormarins Wine Farm, the same farm that sponsors the annual L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Race. Once again a big problem, the heat. It was 38 Degrees out and not a breeze in sight surrounded by a cloudless blue …